Investigation of automated language teaching

Šiame darbe nagrinėjamas kalbos mokymo automatizavimas technine prasme - kompiuterinių ir internetinių mokymo priemonių kūrimas, taip palengvinant ir atpiginant mokymo(si) procesą. Apžvelgiami įvairūs užsienio kalbos metodai informatikos požiūriu, nagrinėjamos jų realizavimo programiškai galimybės. Taip pat apžvelgiamos Lietuvoje prieinamos kompiuterinės kalbų mokymosi priemonės. Darbe pateikiamos metodinės rekomendacijos kompiuterinių mokymo priemonių kūrėjams. Praktinėje dalyje pateikiamos dvi programos: viena klasikinė ir viena internetinė.This paper investigates computer assisted language learning and teaching through the various aspects: choice of language teaching methods to implement into software, mnemonical evaluation of various language learning programs and accessibility. Various language learning methods‘ software implementations are analysed, among them are: Communicative method, Pimsleur method and learning system, Audio-lingual method, Grammar-Translation method, Spaced repetition and language curve. Later various software-based and web-based language teaching programs are approached. Author makes a comparision between PHP-based web applications and Microsoft Visual Basic Express 2008 based software applications, their performance and user usability. Web-standards related advantages and disadvantages in language learning web-based programs are discussed. This work contains source code of two programs – English language irregular verbs teaching program, written with Microsoft Visual Basic Express 2008 and PHP and MySQL – based website that satisfies XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. Website is suited for teaching Basic English list of 850 words and user can practice to transcribe English words to Lithuanian language, translate words in test form with 5 possible answers to choose from in both ways, recognize word’s meaning from English speech.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta